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A soldier in an aircraft fires a machine gun into the night sky.

Fire in the Sky

A Florida Army National Guardsman assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment, fires an M240H machine gun during aerial operations at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, Fla., May 17, 2025. Soldiers conducted day and night training as both individual squadrons and as a joint task force.

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